{"nrhp_refnum":"99000726","name":"North Wales","other_names":["VDHR File No. 30-0-93"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"7392 Ironwood Ln.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Warrenton","county":"Fauquier County","state":"VA","lat":38.67869786900005,"lon":-77.82146387816789,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1999-06-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Industry","Architecture","Entertainment/Recreation","Landscape Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"North Wales is a 1,288-acre historic estate about five miles southwest of Warrenton, Fauquier County, Virginia. It began as an eighteenth-century plantation and became a twentieth-century foxhunting and thoroughbred breeding estate, with a stone mansion and dozens of outbuildings.","why_significant":"The estate is significant for its link to William Allason, who built the original Georgian manor house, to Edward Motley Weld, who transformed it in 1916-1920, and to Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., who made later additions. It reflects agriculture, the horse industry, recreation, and landscape design. The Colonial Revival additions and the equestrian center were designed by the Boston firm of Little and Browne.","narrative":"North Wales is a 1,288-acre estate southwest of Warrenton, Virginia, where thoroughbred horses still graze rolling pastures among dozens of historic buildings. Its core is a stone Georgian house built between 1776 and 1796 for William Allason, with a summer kitchen, smokehouse and bank barn from the same era. Between 1916 and 1920, New York broker Edward Weld hired the Boston firm of Little and Browne to enlarge the house with Colonial Revival wings and to design a carriage house, gatehouse, equestrian center, yearling stables and formal landscape including a long allee of maples. Weld's changes turned a Southern plantation into a northern horseman's hunting and breeding estate. Walter Chrysler, Jr. added a conservatory, swimming pool and other features in 1948. The property is recognized for its agriculture, horse industry, recreation, architecture and landscape design. Despite some losses in the 1960s, most of its historic character survives.","period_of_significance":"1776-1796, 1916-1920, 1941-1948","architect_builder":"Arthur Little & Herbert W. C. Browne (Architects & Landscape); Connolly Brothers (Builders)","architectural_style":"Georgian; Colonial Revival","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"Horses still graze the pastures, and the property keeps agricultural, horse-industry and residential uses. Some historic resources range from deteriorated ruins to excellent condition, and parts of the mansion landscape were under repair.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:59.624005-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/94/6805/41680594/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/99000726.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99000726/448b32d84e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99000726/448b32d84e-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Jerrye &amp; Roy Klotz, MD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NORTH_WALES,_FAUQUIER_COUNTY.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jerrye &amp;amp; Roy Klotz, MD</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NORTH_WALES,_FAUQUIER_COUNTY.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41680594","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Wales_(Warrenton,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14712977"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/fauquier-county/north-wales-99000726/"}